List of Legal Bases Providing for the Ordinary Legislative Procedure in the Treaty of Lisbon1

List of Legal Bases Providing for the Ordinary Legislative Procedure in the Treaty of Lisbon1

List of legal bases providing for the ordinary legislative procedure in the Treaty of Lisbon1 This annex lists the legal bases to which the ordinary legislative procedure established by the Treaty of Lisbon applies. The subject areas underlined are those for which the legal basis is completely new under the Treaty of Lisbon, or where there has been a change in procedure so that the relevant measures are now subject to the "codecision"/ordinary legislative procedure. The numbers of the articles in the TEU and TFEU are those in the consolidated version of the Treaties (in accordance with the table annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon). The previous Treaty articles are indicated in italics and, in cases where the Treaty of Lisbon modified the procedure, an indication is also given of the procedure that applied. 1. Services of general economic interest (Article 14 TFEU) (Article 16 TEC) 2. Procedures for the right of access to documents (Article 15, paragraph 3, TFEU) (Article 255, paragraph 2) 3. Data protection (Article 16, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 286, paragraph 2) 4. Measures to combat discrimination on grounds of nationality (Article 18 TFEU) (Article 12 TEC) 5. Basic principles for anti-discrimination incentive measures (Article 19, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 13.2 TEC) 6. Measures to facilitate the exercise of the right of every citizen of the Union to move and reside freely in the territory of Member States (Article 21, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 18, paragraph 2, TEC) 7. Citizens' initiative (Article 24 TFEU) 8. Customs cooperation (Article 33 TFEU) (Article 135 TEC) 9. Application of competition rules to the common agricultural policy (Art. 42, which refers to Article 43, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 36 TEC: qualified majority in Council and simple consultation of EP) 10. Legislation concerning the common agricultural policy (Article 43, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 37, paragraph 2: qualified majority in Council and simple consultation of EP) 11. Free movement of workers (Article 46 TFEU) (Article 40 TEC) 12. Internal market – social security measures for Community migrant workers2 (Article 48 TFEU) (Article 42 TEC: codecision – unanimity in the Council) 1 Reproduced from A6-0013/2008, Report on the Treaty of Lisbon 2007/2286 (INI). 2 With an 'emergency brake' mechanism: where a Member State considers that the measures concerned 'would affect fundamental aspects of its social security system, including its scope, cost or financial structure, or would affect the financial balance of that system', it may request that the matter 13. Right of establishment (Article 50, paragraph 1, TFEU) (Article 44 TEC) 14. Exclusion in a Member State of certain activities from the application of provisions on the right of establishment (Article 51, second paragraph, TFEU) (Article 45, second paragraph, TEC: qualified majority in the Council without participation of EP) 15. Coordination of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States providing for special treatment for foreign nationals with regard to the right of establishment (Article 52, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 46, paragraph 2, TEC) 16. Coordination of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the taking-up and pursuit of activities as self- employed persons and the mutual recognition of qualifications (Article 53, paragraph 1, TFEU) (Article 47 TEC: codecision – unanimity in the Council when this involved a change in Member State legislation) 17. Extending provisions on freedom to provide services to service providers who are nationals of a third State and who are established within the Union. (Article 56, second paragraph, TFEU) (Article 49, second paragraph, TEC: qualified majority in the Council without participation of EP) 18. Liberalisation of services in specific sectors (Article 59, paragraph 1, TFEU) (Article 52, paragraph 1, TEC: qualified majority in Council and simple consultation of EP) 19. Services (Article 62 TFEU) (Article 55 TEC) 20. Adoption of other measures on the movement of capital to and from third countries (Article 64, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 57, paragraph 2, first sentence, TEC: qualified majority in the Council without participation of EP) 21. Administrative measures relating to capital movements in connection with preventing and combating crime and terrorism (Article 75 TFEU) (Article 60 TEC) 22. Visas, border checks, free movement of nationals of non-member countries, management of external frontiers, absence of controls at internal frontiers (Article 77, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 62 TEC: procedure laid down in Article 67 TEC: unanimity in the Council and simple consultation of EP, with possible switch to codecision following a Council decision taken unanimously after consulting EP) 23. Asylum, temporary protection or subsidiary protection for nationals of third countries (Article 78, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 63, paragraphs 1 and 2, and Article 64, paragraph 2, TEC: procedure laid down in Article 67 TEC: unanimity in the Council and simple consultation of EP, with possible switch to codecision following a Council decision taken unanimously after consulting EP) 24. Immigration and combating trafficking in persons (Article 79, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 63, paragraphs 3 and 4, TEC: procedure laid down in Article 67 TEC: be referred to the European Council (thus automatically suspending the legislative procedure). The European Council must then within a period of four months either refer the matter back to the Council, thus enabling the procedure to continue, or ask the Commission to submit a new proposal. unanimity in the Council and simple consultation of EP, with possible switch to codecision following a Council decision taken unanimously after consulting EP) 25. Incentive measures for the integration of nationals of third countries (Article 79, paragraph 4, TFEU) 26. Judicial cooperation in civil matters (excluding family law)3 (Article 81, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 65 TEC: procedure laid down in Article 67 TEC: unanimity in the Council and simple consultation of EP, with possible switch to codecision following a Council decision taken unanimously after consulting EP) 27. Judicial cooperation in criminal matters – procedures, cooperation, training, settlement of conflicts, minimum rules for recognition of judgments (Article 82, paragraphs 1 and 2, TFEU)4 (Article 31 TEU: unanimity in Council and simple consultation of EP) 28. Minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in the areas of particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension (Article 83, paragraphs 1 and, possibly, 2, TFEU)5 (Article 31 TEU: procedure laid down in Articles 34, paragraph 2, and 39, paragraph 1, TEU: unanimity in Council and simple consultation of EP) 29. Measures to support crime prevention (Article 84 TFEU) 30. Eurojust (Article 85, paragraph 1, second subparagraph, TFEU) (Article 31 TEU: procedure laid down in Articles 34, paragraph 2, and 39, paragraph 1, TEU: unanimity in Council and simple consultation of EP) 31. Arrangements for involving the European Parliament and national parliaments in the evaluation of Eurojust's activities (Article 85, paragraph 1, third subparagraph, TFEU) 32. Police cooperation (certain aspects) (Article 87, paragraph 2 TFEU) (Article 30 TEU: procedure laid down in Articles 34, paragraph 2 and 39, paragraph 1, TEU: unanimity in Council and simple consultation of EP) 33. Europol (Article 88, paragraph 2, first subparagraph, TFEU) (Article 30 TEU: procedure laid down in Articles 34, paragraph 2 and 39, paragraph 1, TEU: unanimity in Council and simple consultation of EP) 34. Procedures for scrutiny of Europol's activities by EP and national parliaments (Article 88 paragraph 2, second subparagraph, TFEU) 3 Points (e), (g) and (h) of paragraph 2 of this article contain new legal bases; the other points were already covered by Article 65 TEC. Paragraph 3 of the same Article 81 TFEU also allows the Council to adopt a decision determining those aspects of family law with cross-border implications which may be the subject of acts adopted by the ordinary legislative procedure. 4 An 'emergency brake' mechanism is provided for in paragraph 3 of this article: if a Member State considers that the measures concerned would affect fundamental aspects of its criminal justice system, it may request that the matter be referred to the European Council. In that case, the legislative procedure is suspended. If consensus is reached after discussion in the European Council within four months, the draft is referred back to the Council and the suspension is terminated. In case no agreement is reached, at least nine Member States may request that enhanced cooperation be established on the basis of the draft proposal. 5 An ‘emergency break’ mechanism is provided for in paragraph 3 of this article. See footnote 47. 35. Implementation of the common transport policy (Article 91, paragraph 1, TFEU) (Article 71 TEC) 36. Sea and air transport (Article 100, paragraph 2, TFEU) (Article 80, paragraph 2, TEC) 37. Measures for the approximation of national provisions which have as their object the establishment and functioning of the internal market to promote the objectives of Article 26 (Article 114, paragraph 1, TFEU) (Article 95, paragraph 1, TEC) 38. Measures to eliminate distortions in the internal market (Article 116 TFEU) (Article 96 TEC: qualified majority in the Council without participation of EP) 39. Intellectual property except

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